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Mary Douglas

"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."

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Mary Douglas
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
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Mary Douglas
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
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Mary Douglas
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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Mary Douglas
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
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Mary Douglas
"Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?"
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Mary Douglas
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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Mary Douglas
"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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Mary Douglas
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
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Mary Douglas
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
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Mary Douglas
"Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!"

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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